at the end of a long day, starting with a walk downhill to icod at 8 am to reach the bus to puerto there. visited a house in la orotava (muy bonita!), an apartment in sta ursula (okay), the german quarter of puerto, la paz, (horrible). finished the day with a walk uphill in the dark, with both kids & two students spending some days on the finca here.

our 10th day here: an intensive day, filled with good things, enjoyable encounters & new impressions. excited, grateful & tired now … good night to all of you out there!

day 6 here. still on the finca. i just updated my dashboard weather widget from hamburg (0°C) to icod (18°C … which is not really right … now that the sun is down it is about 10 or 12 °C). btw: sun is going down here between 6 & 7 am & dawn is quite short; not later than half past 7 it is dark!).

we have seen two houses this week, haven’t come to a decision yet but none of both seems to be right. i have answered about 6 announcements this afternoon …let’s see what the next week will show us.

three days on tenerife. everything is different. strange. flat sharing with 20 people on a small finca. sunny & warm in the daytime, yet quite cool when sun is down. very scenic, beautiful. mountainous. next bus stop & next shop is about 3,5 km downhill … & of course uphill on the way back. & i really mean uphill … very steep! the waxing moon is like a lying C here 🙂

everything is new, we have to find out about all everyday things: how to get where we want, how the busses ( guaguas) are going. where to get our food, where to register residence and so on. a challenge for all the three of us, difficult especially for j …

today we took a trip round the island, inspected a small house between san miguel & vilaflor (very nice, very romantic, but so far back that we would need a car to live there … have to think about it). on our way back we visited an organic, permaculture finca near alcala, guia de isora. we bought some organic avocados, tomatoes & sweet potatoes there & talked to the owner of the finca – an english woman, single mother of three, transition-minded & very interested in our life as homeschoolers. she offered us lodging in a small 2-bedroom-house on her finca, temporary or maybe for longer … maybe we will go there for some time if we won’t find a house/flat within the next week. sounds interesting 🙂

last part of today’s trip led us through the mountains in the northwest of tenerife … awesome! incredibly beautiful … overwhelming. soul balsam.

the way life goes: house hunting visitors who moved here from tenerife 2 weeks ago. not only are they interested in renting this house (& buying our kitchen) but they also have an apartment on tenerife we possibly could rent … we will meet again tomorrow & talk about it. exciting 🙂